This dissertation argues that health campaigns in Mexico during the 1940s-1960s became more effective through the mediation of health promoters working in rural indigenous communities. By carefully balancing state-sponsored ...

This dissertation examines the development of gospel order and the Quaker peace testimony within the political and cultural milieu of Pennsylvania during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. My project uses ...

At the start of the 1970s, gays and lesbians were sick. The medical profession deemed homosexuality an illness, and even as gays and lesbians challenged this theory of illness based of sexuality, many were suffering from ...

The broad sweep of this project is a study of how domestic politics evolved to influence policy and act as a conduit for working-class women to increase their political participation as housewives. Critical to this process ...

Between 1950 and 1980, extraordinary and unprecedented changes occurred in the legal, medical, and social understandings and responses to sexual violence against women in the United States. These changes were largely driven ...